Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental changes in the Aegean Sea: interrelations and interactions between North and South Aegean Sea.

Abstract

The present study describes the Late Quaternary palaeoenvironmental evolution and the main palaeoceanographic changes of the Aegean Sea reconstructed using planktonic foraminifera. This approach, including Q-mode and R-mode cluster analyses, gives an insight into the relationships between sea surface environmental changes between north and south Aegean, and furthermore serves as a baseline data set for palaeoclimatic and palaeoceanographic reconstructions of the eastern Mediterranean Sea.